“My brother is not a murderer”

Apr 08, 2017 News

-says sister of alleged wife-killer
A sister of alleged wife-killer Ganesh Dhanraj is pleading with him to turn himself in. She is also asking

On the run: Ganesh Dhanraj

the police to allow him to surrender unharmed.
“Of course we want him to surrender,” the sister said during a telephone interview yesterday. “But we don’t know where he is. We can’t go into the jungle (backlands). We don’t know where in the jungle he is. I would like them to give him a fair chance to surrender.”
According to the sister, the family was told on Thursday that Dhanraj “get shoot up.”
“Right now we don’t know if he alive or dead. We never see him back since the incident (murder).”
Police said that Dhanraj narrowly escaped from ranks who had spotted him at Roden Rust, East Bank Essequibo, on Thursday. He reportedly plunged into the Essequibo River before the ranks could close in. He was reportedly seen returning to shore.
Repeatedly insisting that Dhanraj was innocent, the sister said she would only believe that he had killed his spouse, Dhanwattie Ram, “if he tells me to my face.”
Asked why her brother would go into hiding if he had committed no crime, the sister suggested that he was reacting to media reports which implicated him in his reputed wife’s murder. She also claimed that her sibling was the abused partner in the relationship, and that his name would be cleared if a ‘proper’ investigation is done.
“Right now my brother is scared. I want the media to come into the area…I don’t believe that he killed his wife. I never know him to be like that. I believe that if a proper investigation is done he would surrender.”

Dead: Dhanwantie Ram

Painting quite a different picture of the suspect, relatives of the slain woman alleged that he was a heavy drinker, and was also physically abusive to his spouse. He is alleged to have dragged the housewife into the couple’s house and killed her while she was heading to the Parika Police Station to make a report against him for assault.
Dhanraj allegedly strangled 29-year-old Dhanwattie Ram, the mother of his three children, with a bed sheet at their Parika Façade, East Bank Essequibo home at around 07:00 hrs on Wednesday.
The victim’s sister, Latchmie Jailall, made the gruesome discovery shortly after the alleged killer was seen fleeing towards the backdam.
The police said that investigations have so far revealed that the victim, after encountering repeated domestic abuse, moved from the suspect’s home four days ago with two of her children and went to her sister’s home which is located a short distance away.
But Dhanraj reportedly went to the sibling’s home on Tuesday and demanded that his reputed wife return home. An altercation reportedly broke out between the couple when she refused to.
Dhanraj then left, but about 06:00hrs on Wednesday, the victim was on her way to the Parika Police Station to lodge a complaint, when he intercepted her and dragged her to their home. Her lifeless body was later found in the house.

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